Call for Projects - Safe Routes to School Funding

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The purpose of the Safe Routes to School (SRTS) program is to increase the number of children walking and biking to school safely. All projects must be within two-miles of primary, middle or high school (K-12).

Program Contacts

Selection Process

All proposals will be reviewed to ensure that they are complete and eligible for funding. A grant review committee will evaluate the proposals and make recommendations. A site visit will be conducted by WSDOT in coordination with the lead agency prior prior to finalizing the list of priorities to ensure that the project is adequately defined and estimated. By December 15, 2014 a prioritized list of projects will be submitted to the Governor’s office and the state legislature who will make final decisions on projects and grant awards. Award announcements are expected by June 2015.

Review Criteria

Access and Mobility – The extent to which the project will establish safer and fully accessible crossings, walkways, trails or bikeways and increase the numbers of children walking and biking to school.

Value - The cost of the project compared to the potential impact.

Applicant Commitment - % of Match

Project Delivery - Expeditious completion of project within biennium including timeliness of preliminary engineering, right of way and project construction.

Other considerations:

Successful track record (completed project with no scope or schedule change).

This program is not intended to increase motor vehicle capacity or fund pavement resurfacing and pavement preservation elements. However, projects that leverage paving investments will be considered higher priority.

Inappropriate Uses of SRTS Funding

Re-occurring costs such as crossing guard salaries;

Improvements for the convenience of drivers rather than to improve child pedestrian and bicycle safety or access;

Improvements to bus stops;

Portable enforcement equipment;

Infrastructure improvements that are not consistent with the AASHTO “Guide for the Planning Design, and Operation of Pedestrian Facilities”, AASHTO “Guide for the Development of Bicycle Facilities”, “NACTO Bicycle Guide” or “NACTO Urban Street Guide”.

Education programs focused on bus safety.

Gifts.

Pedestrian and Bicycle Collision Statistics

The pedestrian and bicycle collision data is provided to help you complete the application form, it includes location information about pedestrian and bicycle crashes on city streets, country roads and state highways in Washington for the last three years. County data represents collisions in the county that occurred on county roads, miscellaneous trafficways or state routes outside of city limits. The city data represents collisions that occurred on city streets, miscellaneous trafficways or state routes within the cities limits.